New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-31
Art NEWS AND COMMENTS.
THE WEEK In ART CIRCLES.

There Is tradition that buyers day" at th'
Academy brings dismal weather, and after Saturday.
experience this will be deemed established fact
But the popularity of water co proved too much fol
the weather and the galleries well filled through
the day Whether another demand IS to be made upor
"patrons" of water coors by second exhibition Is
still an open question. 1t has been bumOrously eng
gested that the rejected works might be shown in the
| lower rooms OF the Academy for tho purpose Of
making things lively" and it Is evident that It would
be difficult to find proper place for another exh BIZ
ton. The experiment has been tried and the exbib
ton generally justified tho action of the societys
committee. second exhibition this year would
probably contain few pictures which might change
places with at the Academy but 1t is safe to say
that the committee OF selection would be shown to
have performed their duties judciousIy upon the
whole. 1t would have been easier tor the members to
| fill tho Academy with water cOiOrs from floor to
ceiling, but they have followed the wiser policy which
should be initiated in tho annual Academy exhibition
A full list of the seventy more water coors sold
thus lar need not be given, but those sold for $50
more are as follows: Head" /. r. wiles, $50
r. Wiles, $50; Leaaess Woods" C. w. Eaton, $50
=" At the Opera" Percy Moran, $685. "A Palace,
Venice" T. Moran, $50; .Good, Morning" Paul
" Flag OF Truce" f. Remington. $50; Long Island
Study" Bruce Crane, $50: October, Henry Farrer
$50 Gentleman Of the Eighteenth Century" Leon
AT Patchogue,r g. H. McCord, 800; I" Long Island
Homestead Percy Moran, 800; Sunset" Henry
Farrer, sou; "C0ld ana Drear, Bruce Crane, flZ0
Lake" j. C. Sicoli, $50; THE Gndccca." Thomas s
Moran, 5000; The Old Mill Race Julian Rix, s1OO;
poats." A. F. Bunner, s75 An Interesting story
Leon Moran, 1925; "Tho Incoming Tide" Fideiia
Bridges so; "A Jersey Hshway f Hopk nson
Evening. Henry Farrer, 500; " Under December
Snow" c: w. Eaton, 800; Tho Letter" 300 {;
and "A Neglected Garden" 300, by Percy Moran
The total OF the sales thus far Is in the
hood OF ~, 900 Mt catalogue prices.
The Etching Club catalogue given a permanent
value by the presence OF eight plates reduced from
etchings in the exhibition. First comes Mr.. Samuel
Colmans etching after his water color " Ruins OF
Mosque" freely drawn example OF direct work, weak
only in the treatment OF the contrasting shadows and
over-promnent white of tent and canopy. Mr. Freer
contributes popular figure study called 4" The
Tok H." very clumsily executed, and dr. Clifford is
represented by characteristic landscape, Near the
Coast" in which a gnarled tree relieved against
luminous sky Mr. st. John Harpers reduction OF dry
point after head OF st. jerome by Rbera has lost
much OF the richness. soitness and ioroe vi the rst
plate published few months since but there remains
enough bodness OF contrast to make an effective
picture" Mr.. Monks's wntry landscape Evening
after Storm" and Mr. Thomas Moran's "Resoundng
Sea next the latter tavorte subject rendered
with considerable force Mr.. Shelton's Long Island
Road presents unsolved problems in its sky and
foliage and Mr.. c. Y. Turner's etching after Rem
brandt" il curious instance OF mercantile etching.
The natural inference would be that this etching was
made from the painting which Is, we believe Ill the
Hermitage collection but 1t Ia safe to that II IL
nothing the kind and the artist has probably
seen the painting This admirably reproduced in
n Braun photograph after which Mr. Turner has made
etching the benefit OF those who are Impressed by
the sounding phrase an original etehlns| II the
etching had been directly from the painting, the
ctohcrs shand Interpretation, it- existence might
be justified There is not much to be sad for this re-
ducton bat o. the merits OF the photograph are
preserved in the larger plate which cannot I've con-
sdered at present The catalogue this year is in
teresting its predecessors thOgh il contains
nothing quite up to Mr.. Parrishs " London Bridge"
The pressure of exhibitions and sales is the in
collection of portraits and other paintings by
Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt Is to he ut the OF the
Associated Artists No. Is East Twenty-third-st The
American collection at tho Lotos Club remains view
tor day two The paintings and curios OF the late
Robert L. Graves will be placed upon exhibition to day
nj the American Art Galleries previous to auction
sale Three sales OF American paintings will bo held in
February collection landscapes especially forest
scenes, by Mr. Worhington Whlitredge is about to be
exhibited at tho Orgies gallery Alter tins comes ON
exhibition and sale OF the paintings left by the late W.
Bliss Baker and the pictures, studies and sketches OF
the late Arthur Quartley will be exhibited and sold in
the latter part OF the month.
The exhibition of Franz Doiregger's Madonna and
Child" at the Sohaus gallery has been ntere-tn in
several ways. Few artists this day OF special
ists have confined themselves closely 20 gwen
class OF subjects than Deiregger. lie Is commonly
olasssd with Vauter and knaus among the leading
Herman painters OF rustic gen o. Dereggers range
has been even more narrow tor lie has devoted himself
almost exclusively 10 the painting OF the Tyrolese
peasant LIE with which he sympathiLes and OF which
Inc has been part Some Que has said OF him that he
the TyroIesr Burns celebrated the Scotch
His choice OF subjects 10 well illustrated IN his Arrival
at the Ball." which Is owned here. Ia his Return OF
Hero" aud paintings of hunters, wrestlers and the
varied features Tyroless life rendered with natural
ism even II imagination wanting For such painter
suddenly 10 revert to the great subject OF centuries
OF Christian art Is certainly an interesting circum-
Ii may be- thar this sub ect especially
mlssioned Or it may be that this picture Ia another
evidence OF what may be termed revival OF religious
nart In th.n ntnna
religious subjects be given pretentious name.
SO far these pictures be characterized they have
nothing In common with the mysticism of the Overlook
school, and they at variance with the generally
academic art Of Kaulbach and Cornelius. There Is
variety, matter OF course, but II uhdes paintings
be taken example, the tendency would seem to DO
toward the treatment of religious subject. with the
most uninching realism. Chde boldly paints the
Apostles as fishermen and peasants OF to-day, and
Christ received In modern cottage by laborer In
sabots and blouse amid the most literal surroundings.
Dctregger does not go far. HIS attitude may per-
haps be described that OF naturalist, to use term
always open to dispute, which will serve "a well rs
another to mark he distinction The spirit OF his pcs-
are is essentially modern, but he has not carried this
too tar. His phras ng, the form III which lie mas ex-
pressed himself Is entirely conventional
Deregger appears to hold with Chesneau that In the
OF the Madonna and the prophets and apostles as
well according to the Frenchman, traditional treat
ment is required ths these images may be presented
to the public IN a form 80 familiar as to be Immediately
recognized. In his composition, therefore, Detregger
has contented himself with patterns ready made-in
Raphaers Madonna of the Grand Duke in the Pitt
Palace, the " Dresden Madonna" aud OF the best
OF MurillOs Divine Conceptions" 1t need hardly be
said that he has reproduced the torn rather than the
intensely dcvout spirit of early Madonnas but he has
expressed with much truth tho sentiment Of mother
hood The face of his Madonna belongs to the nine
teenth century, and 1t has not the rapt expression of
paintings by the masters its resson Is tender
and 10, ing There beauty here. and the iaoe OF the
Child beams with certain intelligent yvacity common
In the traditional treatment OF the subject To this
extent Deregger has adapted his portrait OF his model
one OF his children who died year two since.
The general arrangement, the Madonna standing upon
clouds with the Child on the lett aud tho heads
OF cherubs In the back ground Is familiar has been
indicated and there original endeavor to be noted
in the c0loring or disposition OF the draperes.
Detregger Is not colorist. but the GOODNESS OF his
color elt less here than in his genres and